You really have no idea how important you are to us. We live in an ACTUAL
police state. It is interesting, but a police state none the less. It is
wonderful to have your site.

Best, Jim

Update- Just don’t post my address. You might get me shot.

I post this not for props, but because the internet is wild. Imagine getting information through to China. That is something I never, ever considered in setting up this blog.

John at AmericaBlog live blogged it.

Gannon used a green map to show how red the country is. He goes to a widely publicized event and uses green ink. Quote: "...even though this represents the red-blue county map, it's actually green because I ran out of ink on my printer."

The Talent Show says: Not that I'm trying to make the argument that liberals outnumber conservatives or vice versa, I'm just saying that holding up a map and saying "look at all that red/green" as a way of backing up your point is pretty goddamned retarded.

Wonkette got pissed when Jimmy/Jeff defended Armstrong Williams with the most idiotic defense you can imagine. The go'vt had to pay for NCLB because nobody would print good things about it. That's a journalist folks!

(We are getting swamped with downloads and our servers are behaving badly. My guy is on it to make the downloads faster. QT will be up soon. You can download but just be a little more patient, or please try back in a short while.)

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Video-QT-seems to be working faster than WMP

Wonkette's site has more: Most popular question for Gannon from an off-camera audience member after the panel ended. "DID YOU EVER SLEEP WITH SCOTT McCLELLAN? J

It comes at the end of the video.

Mathew Yglesias posts: Sorites and Gannon

fishbowl DC posts: Drinking? At the Press Club? Live blogging

Here's a right winger's response to the panel: The vilification of Jeff Gannon continued today at the National Press Club. I haven't found anymore righties commenting on it yet.

Jeff Gannon says he was threatened by Rogers. As I was boarding an elevator to exit the building, this same person made a dash for me with unknown intent...If you saw this person's behavior, you would realize that the threats against my person, property and family have not been exaggerated.

Mike Rogers at blogActive tried to get Gannon to answer some questions after the meeting and responds to the charges by Gannon: I joined Gannon on the elevator heading to the lobby. Gannon raised his fists at me as if to threaten me (some people will do anything to stop a story, huh?) and attempted to intimidate me off of the elevator. read on

Update:Digby has his opinions too: New Star: He makes absolutely no sense, wanders off into unrelated subjects, claims victimhood at every turn, avoids questions like a pro and appears to me to be incredibly stupid, arrogant and deluded all at the same time. A clown that nobody in their right mind could take seriously. In others words, meet the next GOP nominee for President of the United States.

Click here or go to the left side of the column to check it out. Mike is really enjoying this, so please keep the emails coming. Soon I'll have his email address posted.

Looks like the comments section died on my end. Haloscan is down.

via Liberal Oasis: Subject: Know Your (Blogging) Enemy-(excerpts)

...Which implies that there is something wrong with “both sides,” namely, liberal blogs and conservative blogs. As far you’re concerned, as far the media’s long-term survival is concerned, there is only one “wrong” side.

The side that wants you destroyed. The conservative side. When conservative blogs criticize reporters and media outlets, their long-term goal is to permanently wreck your credibility...read on

The goal of liberal media criticism is completely different.

At the risk of inappropriately speaking on the behalf of the liberal blogosphere, we don’t want to hobble you. We want to help you. We are customers begging for better product. We want a media that reports, not regurgitates. We want to know that you don’t need them. They don’t care about your well-being. We do.

He goes on to make some great points. Please read the whole letter and tell me if he isn't right on the mark.

on Drug smuggling

A group of US soldiers arrested for alleged cocaine smuggling cannot be allowed to stand trial in Colombia, Washington's envoy to Bogota has said. Colombian senators have been calling for the men, who were based in the country, to be extradited from the US. But US ambassador William Wood said the soldiers are immune from prosecution...read on

I'm all for our troops and their safety, but this is ridiculous. We have to hold our people accountable. We talk about the moral high ground yet sink below the Mendoza line. The US ambassador in Colombia argued that the men were working for US embassy staff in Colombia and therefore qualify for diplomatic immunity. That sounds like a plot line from Law and Order. If we are to stand apart as the world's leader then we must at least hold our own to the same standards. Let's hope we act accordingly and at least prosecute them under our laws.

The recent Peabody award winner vies for a third, as The Daily Show exposes the politicians that spin the Pope's teaching for political gain.

Video-WMP QT a little later

Then he sets his sights on cable news that are as guilty as the politicians. FOX news with a dash of Cavuto and the music of his main ingredient: Crossfire

via The Carpet Bagger Report:

The fire-breathing Republican rage against judges was finally on the wane. The Terri Schiavo controversy faded from view, several high-profile Republicans started distancing themselves from over-heated rhetoric, and one almost had the impression that cooler heads would once again prevail.

But The Hammer had other ideas. Not satisfied with the current level of anti-judiciary animosity, Tom DeLay has decided to kick things up a notch and generate a new level of anger with courts that occasionally disagree with him.

Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, escalated his talk of a battle between the legislative and judicial branches of government on Thursday, saying federal courts had “run amok,” in large part because of the failure of Congress to confront them.

“Judicial independence does not equal judicial supremacy,” Mr. DeLay said in a videotaped speech delivered to a conservative conference in Washington entitled “Confronting the Judicial War on Faith.”

Mr. DeLay faulted courts for what he said was their invention of rights to abortion and prohibitions on school prayer, saying courts had ignored the intent of Congress and improperly cited international standards and precedents. “These are not examples of a mature society,” he said, “but of a judiciary run amok.”

“The failure is to a great degree Congress’s,” Mr. DeLay said. “The response of the legislative branch has mostly been to complain. There is another way, ladies and gentlemen, and that is to reassert our constitutional authority over the courts.”

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), for example, appeared in DeLay’s place at the right-wing conference yesterday. Smith, whom DeLay put on the House Ethics Committee to help shield him from accountability, parroted the DeLay line.

“Judges continue to substitute their own political views for the law, and we must push back,” Smith said. Asked whether he would take steps to retaliate against judges in the Schiavo case, Smith said: “I would certainly be a part of any effort that Tom DeLay was. If that’s the direction that the leaders want to go, I would be happy to go that direction as well.”

It’s not just the House that’s been infected with such lunacy.

“I am in favor of impeachment,” Michael Schwartz, chief of staff to Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, said in a panel discussion on abortion, suggesting “mass impeachment” might be needed.

The inflammatory language from GOP lawmakers against the federal judiciary made a right turn at irresponsible-town and is coming up on looneyville. The one Republican who hasn’t said much on the subject — George W. Bush — could help bring some of his allies on the Hill back from the brink. Any chance he’ll show a little leadership here?

I usually don't put as much up on a particular post, but Steve does an incredible job. Please read his whole article. There will be no slowing down on this subject from Delay and Friends.

Making Up Stories Rox Populi

Now that the gang at Powerline and Michelle Malkin have been proven again to be the the lying tools that they are (uh, and blaming Tom Harkin or looking for another scapegoat sorta goes against the whole Republican "personal responsibility" thing, doesn't it?), they'll need to find, as Atrios and Hilzoy suggest, a new scandalous untruth to spread to their drooling minions.

In the interest of bi-partisanship, I think we should help them brainstorm some ideas.

What shall it be, then? Illegal immigrants sneak into San Diego homes to drink the blood of unsuspecting white babies? Jimmy Carter performed a human sacrifice in the Lincoln Bedroom back in '78 and that's why he's not going to the Pope's funeral? Hillary Clinton conspired to have a guy murdered and then covered it up? John Kerry shot his entire squad in Vietnam and replaced them with hippie look-a-likes he found partying with Hanoi Jane in Ho Chi Min City?
Obviously, I'm not in my best "creative zone" this morning. So, help me out by leaving your suggestions in comments below.
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Obviously, I'm not in my best "creative zone" this morning. So, help me out by leaving your suggestions in comments below.

Quote of the Day American Blog Party    

"Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others."
Robert F. Kennedy

Making Up Stories    Rox Populi

Now that the gang at Powerline and Michelle Malkin have been proven again to be the the lying tools that they are (uh, and blaming Tom Harkin or looking for another scapegoat sorta goes against the whole Republican "personal responsibility" thing, doesn't it?), they'll need to find, as Atrios and Hilzoy suggest, a new scandalous untruth to spread to their drooling minions.

In the interest of bi-partisanship, I think we should help them brainstorm some ideas.

What shall it be, then? Illegal immigrants sneak into San Diego homes to drink the blood of unsuspecting white babies? Jimmy Carter performed a human sacrifice in the Lincoln Bedroom back in '78 and that's why he's not going to the Pope's funeral? Hillary Clinton conspired to have a guy murdered and then covered it up? John Kerry shot his entire squad in Vietnam and replaced them with hippie look-a-likes he found partying with Hanoi Jane in Ho Chi Min City?

"Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others."
Robert F. Kennedy